Woman ‘so cross’ with neighbour who is suspiciously ‘trying to steal her cat’

You can’t choose your neighbours, and unfortunately for one woman, she believes hers is trying to “steal her cat”. 

Taking to Mumsnet to share her problem, Inthebathagain explained how she is “so cross”. 

“Long story short, my cat keeps going into a neighbour’s house. She keeps letting him in her front door…no cat flap. She’s feeding him. She’s keeping him overnight. She even had the gall to put a collar on him in the early days,” she revealed. 

“I’ve spoken to her about this twice, last time 10 minutes ago as I again followed the £120 GPS signal I bought for him [the cat] after he went missing for five days. 

“[Her neighbour’s] response was she ‘can do what the bloody hell she likes’. Then kept telling me to bugger off.” 

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The woman who owns the cat took her pet to the vet and was told “he was overweight”. 

She then returned home and asked her neighbour to “stop feeding him”, but the neighbour refused to believe the cat was overweight. 

The owner of the cat said: “He [the cat] eats nothing at my house at all, and has significantly gained weight in the last 12 months since we moved here.

“He’s very much an outdoor cat, so I don’t want to have to go to the last resort of making him an indoor cat. But I’m stuck for what else I can do. Any tips welcome.” 

The post received several responses. One suggested: “You’re going to have to either cat-proof your garden so he can’t wander, keep him indoors, or let her be responsible for the cat including vet bills, which may make her back off when she realises she has to pay vet bills for a cat she doesn’t own.” 

A couple suggested getting a “strongly worded” solicitors letter written to give to the neighbour. 

“Put leaflets through her door of rescue cats needing a new home, my neighbour eventually got a cat of her own, problem solved,” someone else offered.